there was a big backlog in texas. she was one of the leaders in pushing for -- against cronyism in state government to audit rick perry's sort of enterprise business subsidy funds, fight for homeowner's insurance. a lot of these typical democrat democrats -- proposals. she has a broad, broad record but this effort to define her as a one-issue candidate exclusively about abortion is really the fight of the day right now. >> bill: that's certainly where they have started. and i was just reading your recent column here before we talked about she has really energized the democratic party. she and her legislators, right, have kind of driven rick perry nuts here and republicans in the legislature. >> democrats are hopelessly outnumbered, you would think. they haven't had much to smile about certainly in many years in texas. the inverse of california in terms of the political makeup. and so i thought i wanted to write a column to say wait a minute, if you don't have the numbers, is there anything you can do? can you use the